What is Kitesurf?
Cloudflare's lightweight browser engine built for agents.
Who is Kitesurf best for?
Kitesurf is best for developers whose AI agents need page HTML, screenshots or PDFs in bulk without full Chromium.
Agents that browse the web
It speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol, so Puppeteer, Playwright or an MCP client can drive it by adding one parameter to the Browser Run endpoint.
Bulk screenshots, PDFs and HTML
In Cloudflare's tests it used 3 to 7 times less CPU and memory than Chromium for screenshots and HTML extraction, though it ran slower on the clock.
Bursty workloads
Each session is stateless and exists only for its task, so many can start at once and disappear when the work is done.
Checking a site before you build
The public playground renders any URL with Chrome DevTools attached, so you can see whether a page works in Kitesurf first.
How much does Kitesurf cost?
Kitesurf is free while it is in beta: you use it through Cloudflare's Browser Run within your account's limits, and a public playground lets you try it without signing in.
- Runs in Browser Run with per-account limits
- Quick Actions for screenshots, PDFs and HTML
- CDP endpoint for Puppeteer, Playwright and MCP clients
Cloudflare has not published a price for Kitesurf after the beta. You need a Cloudflare account and a Browser Run API token to call it; the public playground needs no account and gives each page load 1 minute of CPU time and 5 minutes of wall time. Full pricing on developers.cloudflare.com. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Kitesurf
What is Kitesurf?
Cloudflare's lightweight browser engine built for agents.
Who is Kitesurf for?
Kitesurf is best for developers whose AI agents need page HTML, screenshots or PDFs in bulk without full Chromium.
Is Kitesurf free?
Yes. Kitesurf has a free Beta plan: runs in Browser Run with per-account limits.
Where can I try Kitesurf?
On its official website, blog.cloudflare.com.
What can Kitesurf not do yet?
Kitesurf cannot yet play video, render WebGL, pass bot checks that look at real TLS fingerprints, or hold long logged-in sessions with saved state. For those jobs Cloudflare points you to Browser Run's default browser, which runs on Chromium.
Is Kitesurf faster than Chromium?
Not on the clock. In Cloudflare's own benchmark Kitesurf took about 1.7 to 1.8 times longer than a warm Chromium pool, but it used 3 to 7 times less CPU and memory for screenshots and HTML extraction.
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